Don't Act Like You Know Me.

Hey guys,

it's song introduction / song of the day time! Yay. :) Today it's "Don't Act Like You Know Me" by The Arkanes. 

This song is just lovely .. NO, I mean great! (I've been using the words lovely and wonderful so much lately.. but I think since The Arkanes are a rock band they would kill me if I called them lovely.. haha!) 

By the way - the band consists of four great guys: Chris Pate (lead singer and guitarist (high fiving him for being left handed, like I am)), Dylan Cassin (guitarist), Andy Long (drummer) and Lee Dummett (bassist). 

Back to what I was trying to say: this song got immediately stuck in my head when I first heard it at the Jim Kroft concert in Frankfurt.

When they played it everyone just started to dance. It was some kind of

a party. (a pretty hot one since the club was the hottest club I've ever been to. Sweaty thing.)

What I personally love about the song is the title. A few of you know how much I love reading into things. "Don't act like you know me" is just such a thing everyone would say at least once in their life. 

For example when someone you don't even like thinks he/she knows what you need and tells you what to do.
Or when someone judges you just by the way you look thinking they know everything about you as soon as they look at you. 

Or .. or .. or.

There are tons of situations I can imagine me saying "don't act like you know me".

So besides my really awesome interpretation this song has tons of great things to talk about.

Like the beat, the lyrics, the instruments. 

But I think you should listen to the song and find out how INCREDIBLY GOOD it is by yourself :P

Go visit and like their Facebook page here:  

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Arkanes-page/219996961411737 

x Vanessa.

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Thoughts...

Hey guys,

I am sorry for not blogging for the last few days. I was on vacation and spent two whole days with my horse, 9 hours on my horse's back. It was fantastic. And being out in the nature made my thoughts run wild and get some inspiration for my blog. 

I also thought I'd just share some of my thoughts with you.
 You know, when you discover the areas on a horseback you realize how big this world is and how small you actually are. 

You think about how cruel people can be, but at the same time you get to meet lovely people. 

You wonder what will change if you don't do anything and what won't change even if you try your hardest. 

You question peoples' minds. Why do they do what they do? Why would they want to be mean? Why would they want to make your life harder than it is?

You wonder if you're on the right way.
 Or if you will ever get on the wrong one. 
If things will get easier. 
Or more complicated. 
If everything will be fine. 


I think no one knows the answer to those questions. Because if there were answers, nobody would ever question it. 


I just had to get those things off of my chest and I hope you enjoyed it.



x Vanessa.

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Tell Me Why.

Hey guys,

today I want to introduce you another song. This song introduction series is now a part of this blog and will happen every once in a while.

Today the song is by my favourite female songwriter: Taylor Swift. 

And the song is called "Tell Me Why". 

This song means a lot to me because it helped me to realize a lot.

 There were times when I used to hold onto people who actually had to walk out of my life. Back then I really didn't want them to leave and put so much effort into a friendship. 

But a friendship doesn't work out if one person tries everything to keep it while the other doesn't even care about it but pretends to infront of other people.

Well one day I felt horrible and this song came on while I was at the horses and I just listened very very close to the lyrics. Guess what? I could relate 100 percent. 

Of course I have to post the lyrics - so there you go:

You took a swing, 

I took it hard,

and down here from the ground

I see who you are.

You could write a book on how

 to ruin someone's perfect day.

Well I get so confused and frustrated 

Forget what I'm trying to say, oh. 

Why do you have to make me feel small,

so you can feel whole inside? 

I take a step back, let you go

I told you I'm not bulletproof,

now you know. 

And as usually here's a video of Taylor performing the song: 

Hopefully you guys enjoy this song as much as I do.

Leave a comment if you like :))

x Vanessa.

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15 good songs.

Hey guys,

I just saw the #15GoodSongs Twitter tag on Twitter (obviously) and decided not to spam my timeline but blog about it. 

For a music lover like me it's super hard to only pick out 15 songs, but let's do it. Somehow. :D

(the order has nothing to say)

1.) Check Yes Juliet - We The Kings

2.) Wrong Directions - Martin and James

3.) Suffice It To Say - Dan Dietrich

4.) Don't Act Like You Know Me - The Arkanes

5.) Canary In The Coalmine - Jim Kroft

6.) Fix A Heart - Demi Lovato

7.) Good Girl - Carrie Underwood

8.) Pushing Me Away - Jonas Brothers

9.) I Don't Wanna Lose You - Rooney

10.) Ignorance - Paramore

11.) Daughters - John Mayer

12.) Somewhere In Brooklyn - Bruno Mars

13.) The Story Of Us - Taylor Swift

14.) One More Night - Maroon 5

15.) Free Fallin' - Tom Petty 

(to listen to the songs just click on the title, I linked them.)

I really had trouble stopping. ;) I also tried to take different artists to make it a little bit more interesting for you to read.

 But honestly I could to this tag for every of my favourite artists. :)

I hope you enjoyed this and maybe leave a comment ;)

x Vanessa.

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Favourite place in the world.

Hey guys,

today I'm doing the blogpost the winner of the concert picture collection wanted me to blog about. She gave me a few options and I honestly loved every single one. But I've chosen to do a blogpost about my favourite place in the world.

Well since I haven't seen the whole world I definitely can only talk about what I have seen yet. Also my very favourite place in the world would be home, but I think it wouldn't be enough to talk about that.

Soooo my favourite place in the world is the Sacre-Coeur in Paris. I was there in 2009 with my French class from school and I fell for Paris immediately. We visited the Sacre-Coeur at the very end of our Paris tour and guys .. it was magical! 

Being in the church felt so wonderful. The windows, the benches, simply everything is perfect. 

But being in front of it is even better. There are some steps where so many people sit down and just talk, laugh, pray, find hope, sing, dance. It's just magical. Enchanting. Lovely. 

Also you can overview Paris from there. You can see so much of Paris from this place.

So you probably get why I love this place so much. I really hope to get back there soon and soak up the magic again. 

What's your favourite place in the world? :) Please let me know.

x Vanessa.

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Notice details.

Hey guys,

today I honestly ran out of ideas to blog about. I mean I still have a little list of things but I wasn't in the mood to blog about any of them. 

So not doing anything else I took my iPod and listened to some favourite songs of mine.

Not that fascinating, right? Right.

 But I noticed things I haven't noticed before. Some tiny little details in songs  which actually do have a big influence. I got super excited and kept thinking about what the artists want to express with those details.

It just might be a different way of pronuncing a word, repeating a melody for several times, a really quiet background vocal. Anything you can imagine. 

So you're probably wondering why I wanted to blog about this. Simple: I want people to notice the little details that change or express a lot. 

Musicians want their listeners to notice every single piece of their work but sometimes it might take some time to get that.

Little details in songs are like a rainbow: you don't always see all the colours but they're always there. 

So why don't you go and listen to your favourite song now and try to notice a little detail? : )

x Vanessa.

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Ring collection.

Hey guys,

sooo this blogpost is finally fashion related. I think some of you missed that since my last fashion blogpost was ... ages ago.

Today I'm gonna show you my ring collection. I actually only own big statement rings and I really love them. 

I think big rings are definitely an eye catcher for every outfit. Your outfit can be suuuper simple but adding one of those would make it pretty interesting. :)

So, here are my favourites: 

from Bijou Brigitte.

from TopShop London.

from Bijou Brigitte.

from H&M.

from Bijou Brigitte.

present ;)

from H&M

from Primark.

from an antique market.

Do you like big rings too? : )

x Vanessa.

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Devils In The Doorway.

Hey guys,

today I will introduce you a song. Again. Haha, I'm just addicted to writing about special songs. Today's song is "Devils In The Doorway" by Martin and James. 

This song means so much to me. I fell for it the very first time I heard it and I still could listen to it 5 days straight without getting bored. 

The lyrics is fantastic but I guess since I'm talking about Martin and James I don't need to mention that because we all know how amazing their writing skills are. 

Because I love the lyrics SO much I thought I'd post it here: 

Fires wait to be tamed, the guilty wait for pardon,
Signals waiting to change their colours,
Lovers stand in the rain, in fear of being parted,
Time moves on like a train for us,
And we go, on and on in our way,
And we go, on and on in our own way,
Lights up ahead and the devils in the doorway,
Find some faith, and take it home
Ships that broke from their chains, are back to where they started,
Oceans wait to be drained, oh no,
Why can't we be automatic,
Why can't we be automatic,
Why can't we be automatic,
And we go, on and on in our way,
And we go, on and on in our own way,
Lights up ahead and the devils in the doorway,
Find some faith, and bring it home

(More M&J lyrics here)

I made a lot of my friends listen to that song and not one of them didn't like it. Some bought it on iTunes, some bought the whole "Bad Dream EP" where the song is on.  

I've heard this song live one time at a very special concert and I think that made me love it even more. 

The simple but deep melody, the way the guys use their instruments, the message of the song definitely are special.

Of course here is a video of a live performance. I really really hope you all are going to listen to it and tell me what you think about it. : )
That would make me reaaaally happy.

x Vanessa.

 

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Instagram pictures.

Hey guys,

today I'm doing what a lot of bloggers do: a Instagram blogpost. :) I just thought it would be a funny thing to do, so there you go. 

Feel free to follow me on Instagram, my user name is: Vanyhoney (like my twitter ;-) )

I hope you'll enjoy a few of my Instagram pictures. : )

Sun bathing :D

The lucky melody. (dog named Lucky, cat named Melody ;))

Autumn breeze .. 

My favorite thing to do... <3

Let's start the day. :)

Ordered a bag, got the bag and this. 

Walking on sunshine, whoa oh.

My Lovely rocking some blonde extensions .. :D

Supporting the three coolest guys.

my "house in the sand" notebook. 

Mr Mars : )

x Vanessa.

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Happy August.

Hey guys,

happy first of August. :D I know, it's only the beginning of a month, but why not? It's crazy how already 7 whole months passed by. Is it cheesy to say that actually 2012 was great so far? I mean, is it to early to say that?

Well ... I don't think so. It's good to appreciate the good things and take some time to honor them or re-live them, isn't it? 

There are many things I'm really thankful and happy about. For example this blog: it's a blessing to see how it grows every single day, how the views multiply, the comments get sweeter and your feedback becomes more. I just love that. You know that there was a tough time when some people cleary misunderstood the mission of this blog and started to spread some hate. But there were many people who told me not to stop and not to take care about those mean people. And I didn't. I carried on and I am so happy about that decision.

Also I am sooooooooo happy about how I met so many wonderful, inspiring, carrying and just lovely people  this year. Honestly I am so touched by what a few of them did for me and they became so important to me. So meeting many great people is definitely one of the coolest things of the year so far.

Another cool thing is that I am working on many projects right now. Some are for myself and my future, my dream job, stuff like that. Some are for my horse. And some are for this blog and I'm just super excited to watch them growing, becoming something real and see how you guys will react. : )

At the end of this blogpost I want to make sure that the new followers/readers get the chance to read the most important blogposts of this blog. So I will list them here and I'd be very happy to get some feedback as well:

• The Mission Of Promotion: Capulet.
• Concert Picture Collection.
• A wise man once said ...
• houseinthesand honors M&J
• Jim Kroft concert.
• Martin and James concert.
• Bullying. Inner beauty. Confidence.
• The Mission Of Promotion: Dan Dietrich.
• Musikmesse Frankfurt 2012.

x Vanessa.

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